Governments at all levels in the country as well as corporate organisations have been urged to organise more enterprenural training for women with a view to developing their skills in the new year.
This was contained in a resolution at a one day entrepreneurship training programme organized by the centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) in conjunction with Embassy of the Netherlands in Nigeria for zero to low income women at Rivers West Senatorial zone at Ahoada.
The forum also stressed the need for women in the senatorial zone to identify good business opportunities and invest in them as well as implement good business plans.
It also urged for adequate record keeping while business must be separated from family expenses.
Speaking at the forum, an Enterprenueral Development Expert, Dr Joseph Etang said small business could prove to become a bigger one with proper planning; adding that lack of proper business planning can lead to collapse of business.
According to him, while business idea gives the prospective investor an idea of the type of business to carry out business plan providers strategic direction on how to run business profitably.
Etang said discipline and good characters are required to succeed as an enterprenuer.
On his own part, the co-facilitator of the training, Nelson Franklin noted that cleanliness and safety consciousness also helped businesses to succeed.
He said it would be difficult to get serious customers to continually patronize a business if their safety could not be guaranteed and if the business environment is dirty.
Declaring the training open, David Vareba, Head of Human Rights Program of Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, CEHRD disclosed that the training was part of a human rights project of CEHRD aimed at empowering women to begin to assert their socio-cultural and economic rights.
He recalled that some women had earlier been trained on women participation in politics adding that, in the course of the training, Women in Governance Network was formed to encourage women to participate in governance at all levels.
He stated that the entrepreneurship training was incorporated in the project to empower women economically to enable them have the economic strength required to pursue political power.
He urged the participants, who were mainly peasant farmers, artisans and petty traders drawn from the Women in Governance Network, WIGN, to take the training serious, saying that there may be opportunities to link the participants who may want to invest in business to some funding sources.

John Bibor & Aminu Ngoma